Chapter 240: Release of Water in the Rice Field
Two horses usually cannot fight to the end because they have different temperaments from cows.
For things like cows, if you don’t beat them, they will be beaten to death.
And when cows fight, it’s hard for people to stop them, so this is how cows’ tempers come about.
As for the horses, they are thrashing, and if anyone feels that they cannot bear the pain, they will run away on their own.
After all, they don’t have a bad temper. If the pain is unbearable, they will definitely hide away. They are not stupid, and they will keep getting beaten in pain.
It was exactly what Zhang An said. The two horses kicked each other with their hooves and stopped soon after.
Because the new green horse couldn't stand the pain at this time, he stopped waving his hooves and ran to the other side to hide.
But Dahei didn't seem to want to let it go easily. He watched it hide aside and chased after it.
After getting closer, Zhang An thought Dahei would continue to kick it. After all, Dahei had kicked other mares many times.
It's just that Zhang An didn't expect that Dahei didn't make any more moves after slowly approaching Qing Ma.
Instead, he sniffed and circled around the green horse, and suddenly the black horse suddenly burst out.
Suddenly he raised his two front hooves and pressed them on the green horse's back. Zhang An was stunned by this scene.
"Bah, why did it happen all of a sudden? Zhang An, look what you have taught him."
When Su Ying saw this scene, she covered her eyes and ran out.
Because the scene that happened next was really not suitable for children.
"No, why did this become what I taught you? I, I was wronged."
Hearing this, Zhang An's face turned dark. What does this have to do with him? Even more unjust than Dou E.
Zhang An didn't teach it these things on weekdays, so it was his fault that it was doing well.
Zhang An really didn't expect that Dahei, who usually seemed very upright and not at all womanly, would do such a thing today.
However, Zhang An was also very surprised at this time, why was this big green horse so stubbornly suppressed and refused to escape.
In fact, in this position, if the green horse under Dahei wants to run away, it will easily run away.
But the fact is that this green horse has no intention of running away at all, giving people a feeling of resignation.
The way it looks now is completely different from the one when it raised its hooves at Dahei just now.
After half the pay, Dahei finished like a scumbag and got off the green horse.
And after this guy came down, he still raised his head and talked, looking very proud.
"You rough thing, you are a coward, aren't you? You have learned how to force others, do you know that this is a crime?"
The more he looked at it, the angrier Zhang An became, and he stretched out his hand Slap it a few times.
Originally I thought that these two horses could be matched, but it would take some time to get familiar with them.
I didn’t expect Dahei, a prude, to learn to be tough after a fight.
It's really lucky that it's a horse. If it's an individual, I'm going to be a national champion for a few years.
At this moment, the green horse next to me is no longer so noisy, just like a little spoiled wife.
Standing quietly beside Dahei, he completely lost the irritability he had just now.
This must be because he was beaten, Zhang An thought, he still knows how to play in the animal world.
Human beings just don’t know each other without fighting, but these two animals fought until they reached the whole family.
Looking at the two of them, they were fighting each other just now, but now they are smelling each other.
Zhang An couldn't bear to see such a scene, so he added some grass and water to the circle and went out.
Coming out of the horse pen, Zhang An found Teacher Xiao Su immersed in writing on the desk.
"Isn't there still two days before school starts? Why should we start preparing lessons?"
Zhang An looked at the kraft paper-covered lesson preparation book and he had already prepared the second lesson.
When Su Ying was in the county school, she taught first grade students.
The teaching contents that need to be prepared for the new semester this year were all taught by her last year, and she is still very familiar with them.
So Su Ying didn't spend much time and had already prepared the previous texts.
"It's okay to be idle anyway. It's good to be able to write a little. You have to write sooner or later anyway."
Su Ying doesn't want to experience the pain of catching up on teaching content before. .
I usually write a little bit at a time, and I don’t feel tired when I add up a little bit.
But if they are piled together, it will be really tiring when it comes time to hand them in.
"I remember, didn't you write something before? Just find it and copy it. Many teachers do this."
When many teachers want to hand in these materials, they basically Just find out the old things and copy them over.
“Those are veteran teachers with rich teaching experience. They can have their own style and ideas without preparing lessons, so it doesn’t matter if they copy.”
Su Ying smoothed back a strand of hair that fell from her forehead with her hands and hung it on her ears.
“I don’t have much teaching experience yet. If I write more and read more, I will always be able to find the areas where I don’t speak well in class.”
It is said that men are most attractive when they are serious. But girls are also very attractive when they are serious.
Seeing that Su Ying was busy, Zhang An didn't want to disturb her.
"Then you continue writing, I will go out to see the fields."
Before autumn, the rice in the paddy fields has begun to bloom.
As autumn enters these two days, you can see that the flowers on the millet have finished blooming and are beginning to ear.
You need to pay more attention during this period. The water in this paddy field cannot be too deep, nor can there be no water.
"I'll go with you. I've written a lot today, and there's no rush for the rest."
Hearing that Zhang An was about to go out, Su Ying immediately capped her pen Cap the pen and prepare to go with Zhang An.
"Okay, let's leave now."
Su Ying wanted to go together, and Zhang An didn't refuse. Anyway, the paddy fields weren't that far away, so it would be nice to go for a walk in the fields.
"Mom, let's go to the fields to see the water."
Coming down from upstairs, Zhang An found a hoe and took Su Ying out to the fields.
Before going out, Zhang An still said something to his mother at home.
"Hey, Xiaoying, will you go too? Why don't you bring an umbrella? The sun is a bit bad now."
The sun in early autumn is no worse than in summer. Wang Fang is worried about Su Ying was exposed to the sun, so she found an umbrella and handed it to her.
"Mom, it's okay, I brought a hat."
Su Ying raised the sunhat in her hand to show Wang Fang.
In fact, walking in the paddy fields, I didn’t feel too hot. This may be because the field water absorbed part of the temperature.
Now the millet in the fields has begun to ear, so there are more and more grasshoppers on these millets.
When you walk to the field dam, you can see some grasshoppers jumping around on the ears of rice.
There were many swallows in the sky at this time, and they were all hovering low.
From time to time, you can see a few swallows suddenly swooping down and flying over the top of the rice.
When he flew up again, he already had a grasshopper in his mouth, ready to go back to his nest.
When she came to the field, Su Ying saw the sweet potato vines on the edge of the field, and immediately she was ready to squat down and start looking.
"Okay, stop looking. There haven't been any sweet potatoes in the past two days." Seeing Su Ying like this, Zhang An knew that she was looking for sweet potatoes.
Zhang An brought her to see him once before, and now that she saw it, she remembered it.
Don’t look at the dense sweet potato vines growing on the field ridge, with lush leaves.
However, the sweet potato fruiting period in the wild is generally from June to mid-to-late July of the lunar calendar.
After all, as the old saying goes, sweet potatoes are ripe on June 6 and rotten in July and a half.
After half of the seventh lunar month, ripe sweet potatoes will begin to rot.
But it’s not absolutely certain. If you search carefully, you can still find a few good ones.
Hearing Zhang An's words, Su Ying stood up from the field ridge with some disappointment.
It hasn’t rained much during this period, and the sun has been shining brightly in the sky.
Even though Zhang Jianguo came to drain the water a few days ago, there is now only a shallow layer of paddy water left.
So Zhang An took a hoe and went to the ditch beside the field to open the water outlet and let the water flow into the field.
“Hey, whose chicken is running into the field, and this chicken can actually swim?”
Suddenly Su Ying called Zhang An and pointed to the sky from above Something that came out of that field.
"This is not a chicken raised at home. It's called a black water chicken, and we also call it a corncrake."
This thing is covered in black fur, and its claws are very long, yellow-brown or gray-brown in color.
But the most conspicuous part is its mouth and forehead, because this part is all bright red, only the tip of the mouth is yellow.
“Even though its name has a chicken, it’s a bird, so it’s normal for it to be able to swim.”
“I thought someone’s chicken came into the field. , but it doesn’t look like it, with its red mouth.”
The appearance of this black water chicken is indeed very similar to the native chicken raised in the village.
However, the two paws of this black water chicken are yellow, and the color from the mouth to the forehead is darker red.
The native chickens in the village are all black and black.
Just now, another one emerged from the rice forest in the field.
As soon as Su Ying saw it, she ran after it and wanted to catch it, but the rail ran very fast and disappeared in an instant.
"Stop chasing this thing. Zhang Tie can't catch it even if it comes, let alone you."
There are so many of these rails in the fields every summer, and every baby in the village wants to catch them when they see them.
But this thing runs very fast and keeps burrowing around in the rice fields, making it difficult to catch.
So it’s not easy to catch it. Unless you get a trap, you won’t be able to catch it.
But it’s hard to catch and hard to catch. This thing is delicious whether fried or stewed.
It is precisely because it is delicious that it is on the national protection list.
After putting the Tianshui in, Zhang An did not go back immediately.
Because we can’t put too deep water in the field, we simply stay here and wait for the water level to reach and block it before leaving.
The two of them were sitting on a rock beside the field. Only then did Su Ying notice the rice in Zhang An's field.
“Zhang An, why does this rice look like it’s been dyed? It’s different from other people’s rice.”
Along the way from the fields, Su Ying saw a lot of rice.
But the rice husks on Zhang An’s rice ears turned out to be purple-red.
“Because the varieties are different, everyone grows hybrid rice, and ours is blood rice, which is a domestic variety.”
The difference between blood rice and other rice is also You can only see it after earing.
Also, hybrid rice plants are stronger and stronger, while blood rice plants grow taller and more slender.
It is precisely because of this that this variety is not resistant to lodging. As long as the wind and rain are slightly stronger, they can be blown down.
“I thought they were infected with disease, but it turns out this is what the rice looks like.”
Seeing the blood rice for the first time, Su Ying was very interested and squatted in the field. Just stare at them.
In Su Ying's impression, rice should be golden, because that's what it says in the book.
“It looks so blood red, no wonder it is called Blood Rice. This name is so suitable.”
"So, don't be afraid when you hold a bowl of blood-red rice when you eat at home."
Not only is the outer shell of the blood rice red, the rice inside is even darker red than the outside.
The cooked rice looks like chicken blood has been added.
"Let's go, we should go back."
The water in the field was almost empty, Zhang An blocked the water outlet and took Su Ying back.
On the way back, I met many children in the village who came out to release water to irrigate the fields.
The task of discharging water in the village is usually assigned to the children at home, because the adults are busy doing other things.
The job of draining the water is also very easy, just dig the water outlet and guard it.
Because Changqing Village is very rich in water resources, no one is worried about water shortage unless it is a severe drought.
The children in the village all like the adults to arrange water work.
Why, because you can play outside all the time after clearing the fields, but don’t be too cool.
Draining water in Changqing Village is very simple, just dig the water outlet and keep it there.
The reason why people are guarding it is because if no one is there, some people with fields downstream may come to release water.
Seeing no one was there, I dug out the water you had blocked.
There is someone here. When others come, the most they can do is discuss it and let some of it go without digging it all up.
Some people even see someone releasing water upstream, so they come back another day or at night, since there is plenty of water in the river anyway.
However, in some places where water is scarce, children cannot do the job of discharging water.
And not only do adults have to come in person, but sometimes several adults have to go together. It’s not feasible with less people.
For example, at Zhang An’s grandmother’s house, there are many disputes caused by the release of water every year.
But in that kind of place, this is no longer called letting go of water, but called fighting for water.
The competition for water is not only with people in this village, but also with people from other villages.
A lot of times the quarrels are just verbal disputes over trivial matters, and there are many cases where they get into fights over water.
The biggest scene Zhang An ever saw was when his grandmother’s Longtoushan village was competing for water with the village next door.
After the fight, you have to ask them if they regret it.
They promised not to regret it, because without this water, the food in the fields would not survive.
If they could provide some blood to irrigate the paddy fields, they would be willing to change anyone.
So Zhang An is very lucky that he was born in the village of Changqing. At least he didn't starve when he was a child.
There may be some minor frictions sometimes, but after the fight, both sides of the village will make peace privately.
After all, if you were caught in the police station, you would have to stay at least ten days and a half.
(End of this chapter)